Paleoenvironmental changes during the last 4000 yr in the Tigray, northern Ethiopia

Quaternary Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 312-321

  Machado, Maria J ^a   Pérez González, Alfredo ^b   Benito, Gerardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0032075810     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1965     Document Type: Article

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